Expect the governor to make a lot of noise about the role of tourism in the coming weeks as he prepares the state for his veto of a spending bill that will drastically cut Visit Florida’s budget.

— Jason Clampet

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A record number of tourists are coming to Florida says Gov. Rick Scott.

Scott on Monday will visit Miami’s Jungle Island where he will announce that 31.1 million people visited the state during the first three months of the year. That’s a 2.5 percent jump over the same time period in 2016.

Nearly 113 million tourists — most of them from the U.S. — visited last year.